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Single-player games like Life Eater

Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Life Eater, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.

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Ranked picks

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    Home Safety Hotline — Steam game cover

    Home Safety Hotline

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.

    Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.

    2024IndieSimulationCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    I.T. Never Ends — Steam game cover

    I.T. Never Ends

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.

    The printer is bleeding, the Wi-Fi is haunted, and Ticket #666 just came in. As the latest hire for a company run by cosmic horrors, your job is simple: Swipe to survive. Make binary decisions to survive the night shift in this dark comedy desktop simulator. I.T truly never ends.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Yeli Orog — Steam game cover

    Yeli Orog

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Life Eater.

    Yeli Orog is a short atmospheric FMV game about an immense archaeological discovery: A bizarre stone tablet written in the Celtiberian language found buried underneath an ancient dolmen in northern Spain.

    2018IndieAdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tentacle Prawn: (Actually) A Cthulhu Dating Sim — Steam game cover

    Tentacle Prawn: (Actually) A Cthulhu Dating Sim

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.

    It's got action! It's got romance! In this RPG-Dating Sim, gather your party and try to settle a centuries-old dispute among your monster and human classmates! The fate of Winter Prom is at stake!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure3.74 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bloodweight — Steam game cover

    Bloodweight

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.

    100 generations. one ledger. one heir at a time. you are the bloodline itself, guiding your lineage through the ages. you spend each life; the Soul Teller writes what it was. when your line ends, you read the chronicle of yourself. how will YOUR dynasty fall?

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Simulator of Ukraine 1991 — Steam game cover

    Simulator of Ukraine 1991

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.

    This game is a global strategy, which is primarily focused on Ukraine after leaving the Soviet occupation. Here you will be given control of Ukraine with the opportunity to change history and intervene in the events of that time.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    xiuzhen idle — Steam game cover

    xiuzhen idle

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.

    This is a xiuzhen simulation placement game! From the refining of qi, building the foundation to the ascension of the celestial realm, crossed into the divine realm. (The game has been updated with the english mod, but you will need to select the "english" beta in the properties option to update it)

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.79 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker — Steam game cover

    The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.

    YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Our End of the World — Steam game cover

    Our End of the World

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.

    Filled with puzzles, the story between she and me at the end of the world. English Subtitle Released on 2018/11/22!

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Sexy Brutale — Steam game cover

    The Sexy Brutale

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Life Eater.

    The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...

    2017IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    I Am Your Beast — Steam game cover

    I Am Your Beast

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Hunt the military-industrial complex across stylish comic book micro-sandboxes in this fast-paced covert revenge thriller FPS from the developers of El Paso, Elsewhere.

    2024Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    CLICKOLDING — Steam game cover

    CLICKOLDING

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Life Eater.

    The man in the corner of your hotel room wants you to click something. He wants to watch you click it.

    2024Indie2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    El Paso, Elsewhere — Steam game cover

    El Paso, Elsewhere

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    STAKES. GUNS. SLOW-MO. Fight werewolves and vampires in a reality-shifting motel. Dive through barricades to escape the grasp of evil puppets. Destroy the villain you loved. A new, third-person love letter to classic shooters. Neo-noir never looked so good.

    2023Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator — Steam game cover

    Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Life Eater.

    Buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Dive into the quivering innards of alien capitalism in the sci-fi body horror market tycoon game you didn't know you needed.

    2021StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dread X Collection — Steam game cover

    Dread X Collection

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Life Eater.

    10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator — Steam game cover

    Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Life Eater.

    Buy low, sell high, and short an entire universe of babies in this arcade stock market sim set in the world of Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.

    2026Simulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 — Steam game cover

    Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.

    MATCH DNA BUBBLES IN AN UNDERGROUND LAB TO KEEP YOUR PSYCHIC CLONE FROM INVADING YOUR MIND AND TURNING YOU INTO A CANNIBAL. This is the match-3 survival horror comedy RPG metroidvania you didn't know you needed.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs — Steam game cover

    An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs

    Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Life Eater.

    An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is an open-world comedy adventure game. Talk to stock photo dogs. Solve their problems. Catch your flight. And call it Dog Airport Game when you get tired of saying the full title, like I did three months ago.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →